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This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Tajfel and Turner in 1979, Social Identity Theory has proved enormously influential in stimulating new theory and research, and in its application to social problems. The field is developing apace and important new lines of work have opened up in the past few years. The three sections of the book cover...

This landmark work offers a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory from the leading scholars in the field. First proposed by Tajfel and Turner in 1979, Social Identity Theory has proved enormously influential in stimulating new theory and research, and in its application to social problems. The field is developing apace and important new lines of work have opened up in the past few years. The three sections of the book cover...

The fourth of the novels in The Land of the Living sequence finds Amy Parry bereft of her best friend Enid who has died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. When she marries John Cilydd More, companionship and motherhood bring her security and some fulfilment. But her peaceful existence is invaded by the turbulence of striking mi...

A manic, inventive, and painfully funny debut novel, "Lord of the Barnyard" is about a town's dirty laundry--and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out." . . . A tornado of almost biblical proportion" ("Le Monde").

Michael Tye untangles the complex web of empirical and conceptual issues of the newly revived imagery debate in psychology between those that liken mental images to pictures and those that liken them to linguistic descriptions. He also takes into account longstanding philosophical issues, to arrive at a comprehensive, up-to-date view and an original theory that provides answers to questions raised in both psychology and philosophy. Drawing on ...

Die Forschungsarbeit befasst sich mit den lebensgeschichtlichen Erfahrungen von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern und deren Auswirkungen auf das Erleben und Verarbeiten beruflicher Anforderungen in der Berufseingangsphase. In leitfadenorientierten biographischen Tiefeninterviews wird der Entstehungszusammenhang der Skriptproblematik in den persönlichen Lebensgeschichten der Lehrerinnen und Lehrer aufgezeigt, die erzieherisch wirksamen und handlungsleit...

Viele der heute in der Öffentlichkeit erörterten Fragen haben eine zentrale rechtsphilosophische Komponente. Ob Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Umweltschutz, Strafbarkeit von «Mauerschützen», Nationalismus, mitmenschliche Solidarität, Ordnung der Arbeitslebens, Menschenrechtsschutz und Achtung staatlicher Souveränität sowie Sterbehilfe - überall geht es um die Möglichkeit einer rationalen Begründung nichtpositiver Richtigkeitskriterien und um die Bes...

This self-contained introduction to natural language semanticsaddresses the major theoretical questions in the field.This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves...

Originally published in 1923, this book documents the work of the famous Philadelphia-based firm of Mellor, Meigs, & Howe, which designed many outstanding residences in Mid-Atlantic and New England states using English, French, and Italian traditions. Through photographs and measured drawings, one can discover the joys that superior residential design can offer. 308 photos and measured drawings.

Our kids need Christian heroes, but sometimes parents feel they lack Christian role models outside the home. This is a family reader created to fill that gap with stories of believers who demonstrated sacrificial love, incredible courage, and mountain-moving faith.

Basic models and concepts of machine dynamics and motion control are presented in the order of the principal steps of machine design. The machine is treated as a coupled dynamical system, including drive, mechanisms and controller, to reveal its behavior at different regimes through the interaction of its units under dynamic and processing loads. The main dynamic effects in machines are explained. The influence of component compliances on accu...

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From internal control structures that are not fraud-specific to insufficient communication in the fraud discovery-to-investigation and conviction process, fraudulent activity is a widespread fact of life in the business world. Historically, the corporate tendency has been to react to fraud after the fact, rather than to be proactive in its prevention. And in most cases, blame is directed at accountants and auditors. Unfortunately, these office...

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`Certainly worth reading in order to be reminded of some positive reasons for entering the teaching profession: to value the process of education as much as the content, to view children holistically and to consider schools as places of learning for all' - British Journal of Special Education Behaviour difficulties in our schools will not go away, but they can be significantly reduced. This book makes available to practitioners and students t...

Notes in Computer Science (Volumes 794, 977, 1245, and 1469, respectively).

This volume contains the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2000), which was held on March 23-25, 2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The proceedings of the rst two workshops in this series were published by Springer-Verlag, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, as volumes 1386 and 1569. The focus of the Hybrid Systems workshop series is on modeling, control, synthesis, de...

The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. - The tenth meeting of

Feinsinnig und gefühlvoll fängt Tanja Schard in diesem lyrischen Band Stimmungen und Emotionen ein und trifft durch gekonnte Pointen den Kopf mancher meist geflissentlich übersehenen Nägel. Wer dachte, Lyrik sei uninteressanter Schnee von gestern, wird durch diese kleinen literarischen Juwelen sanft - aber bestimmt - eines Besseren belehrt.

Facing an adversary's use of deception is a potential area of vulnerability for US forces. This work discusses six fundamental characteristics of deception in urban areas as both a hindrance when facing adversaries and as a help to US forces conducting deception in support of urban operations.